2006-12-21 09:23:15 · 25 answers · asked by Amtol 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
because the days of the scarlet letter are long gone.
2006-12-21 09:24:20 · answer #1 · answered by angie 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sadly enough, probably because there is so much of it that there is no possible way for them to catch and punish everyone that does it. It would take up so much of their time that they would be so busy doing that they wouldn't be able to take time to punish the really bad guys... or vice versa. And since it is more important to punish murderers and rapist, etc, and they already have their hands full with that, there is just no time to take legal action against a crime like infidelity.
2006-12-21 17:26:16 · answer #2 · answered by chanteuse87 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah we might as well start patrolling what goes on in the private bedrooms of others.. I mean we already have trouble catching all the MURDERERS and PEDOPHILES and the like...Why worry about infidelity when there are REAL crimes out there going unpunished...
2006-12-23 08:11:50 · answer #3 · answered by lilmisscantbewrong 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It does. It's just that for some, the punishment is much less extreme (Bill Clinton) than for others Charlie Sheen (and my buddy Sam T.).
2006-12-21 17:38:31 · answer #4 · answered by ericscribener 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps because the majority of society participates in it.
Oh yeah, and that thing about being a free country and having freedom of choice may have something to do with it....
2006-12-21 17:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by Nunya 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some societies still do! Adulterous women in certain Arab countries wind up beheaded in the town square for it.
2006-12-21 17:26:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
because society's an infidel, it be like eating angus steak when you're a cow
2006-12-21 17:30:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In some circumstances I think they should punish.
2006-12-21 17:25:02 · answer #8 · answered by CJ 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HOW?
and wouldn't EVERYONE be punished?
(except for me, of course.... I never strayed!)
it DOES sound like a good idea, though!
how about a FINE payed to the injured party?
(that would be ME)
I could go for that!!!
2006-12-21 17:24:52 · answer #9 · answered by Zippy 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Society doesn't do anything nowadays. It lets the state do it.
2006-12-21 17:28:02 · answer #10 · answered by D.F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has been tried in the past, but for the most part, it is very difficult to legislate morality.
2006-12-21 17:25:12 · answer #11 · answered by Curious1usa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋